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Montana Justice.

Montana Judge-Wnat is he charged with
onstahle-Holdin' that his shOOtin' iron
counted in flush
Judge-Drinks for the crowd. Next
Constable-This here chap calls hissef Nc
Cosky Butt, and says "daypo' an Their an
ni-ther.
Judge-Two hours ter git outer tn
county. Washington Critic.
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CAPT. JACK HUSSEY.
eecOveRY OF THE MAN WHO HAS
SAVED THIRTY-ElGHT LIVES.

rus,ishmen Must Drown so '"r ~ "o
concerned-Though He Got Drunk ne
x,a Not Break Pledge-A frotec'
tor for Helpless Women and Ch''dre"'
IAN. Jock Hussey, Of New York, shot Dy
Policeman Hahn few weeks ago WIN 80
at his old post as doorkeeper at OasI'e o''en,
His recovery, inasmuch as II wan save 'ne
policenan's life. is the thirty-eishtn person ..
whom noble Jack has been the SAVIOR Az
the Garden the employees say he must nave
another medal, this time for not dying.
The policeman's pistol, it was at nrst
,,oucbt had inflicted a mortal wound, but
ovaroination showed that the ball struck a
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rib, and following
around was found
a short distance
under the skin,
near the middle II
the back. Jack
found the bullet
himself and called
the attention OF
his physician TO it,
when il was speed
lily removed. His
only concern dur
ing his illness has
been fear that be
might lose his place
E.r41o Gortap
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THE TERRIBLE.
A Mighty Marine Monster on French
Waters.

Now that the naval maneuyers on the
Mediterranean are interesting our French
friends. their illustrated papers are keeping
up their interest in naval warfare by publish
ing portraits Of their mighty ships of war
This monstrous marine giant is the Terri
BILE 1t was begun in 1881 and is now com
pleted The French give their war ships
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PAINTS. OILS. &c.
DICHMOND IRON PAINT CO.
Mt. PATE x CO.. loE EAST CARY .rmf

Weather, W ater,
and Fire Proof.
Never Cracks,
Blisters, or Peels.
Especially adapt
ed for Tin, Zinc
Copper. Iron. and
) b In lie, and
Board Roofs.
Defective and
Leaky Roofs from
age and exposure
arerenderedti tight
and perfect by IFS
use. Damp and
Imperfect Walls
are also rendered
dry by the use Of
this PAINT and
CEMENT.
jail ~
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DIR. Oliver Wendell Holmes reads his
poems from privately printed copies In
large type on unbound sheets.
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Miss Betsy Primme-He really Is such an
ugly loo ing devil you know.
The Vicar-Well, he isl
Hostess who overhears)-My goodness,
gracious me-
They were only discussing the Mephistoph-
eles Of a provincial dramatic company
London Punch.
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2 Against lS.

Several physicians have pronounced my DIS
ease blood poison. caused by paint or lead In the
paint. but they could not cure me. Last sum
mer used eighteen bottles Of largely adver-
tised blood medicine. which did me no more
good than so much water.
have used only two bottles OF Il. Is. H.. ana
am proud TO say that have received greater
benefit from them than from the eighteen, ana
am now rapidly recovering. There Is no ques
ton about the superiority of B. b. B. over AL
blood remedies. W. II. WOODY,
2l5 Reynolds street
AuRusta Ga. April q. 1856.
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Tint (rueI War.

$50 your father was in the WARP said be.
ayes, he was killed in the battle Of Bull
Run she replied
"Whe"e--er-was he shotr
ale wasn't shot at all. He broke his neck
running down the hill. War is an awful
cruel thing, don't you think sof'-New York
Mail
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All who desire full information about the
cause and cure OF Blood POisOns, scrofula, ana
ScrOfulOus Swellings, Ulcers. Sores hheuma-
tism. Kidney complaints, Catarrh, etc, can
secure by mail free, a copy OF our 3 page nus
strated Book of Wonders filled with the most
wonderful and startling proof ever before
Address BLOOD BALM co.
9mv17 Atlanta Ga.
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Chicago Grain and Produce Market.

Reported by c. T. BEDFORD & Co., Grslo
Commission Merchants, No. e South Twelfth
street 800
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The greatest remedy for malaria is
Johnston's Nolandine; and what is bet
ter, It is a homemade medicine. Try a
bottle.
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ENCI KSIONS.

Train will leave Chesapeake and Ohio depot
AT 1890 SATURDAY NIGHT, June 18th, and
arrive at Norfolk and Ocean View at pleasant
hour Sunday morning. leaving Norfolk at Z
pm.-thus giving the WHOLE DAY for
pleasure and sightseeing
A silver cup will be presented 10 the bes,
lady-shot in target practice.
l~- NO TIME LOST FROM BUSINESS.
Tickets can be had from the committee and
at the train.
Committee Edel, +. +. Tholl. John
r. Waldman. Charles A. Messmer, and l. L.
Iseman. amy rs je5, IL, 10, IL, Sls5t
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The DAILY Record" is "A valuable publica-
ton. Subscribe TO IL. Office Gs2 East Main
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Tar Paper.

for hacking clothes, at Sc. and &c. per yard
moth proof. healthy, disinfecting' ana Dc'te'
than camphOr.
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Artists, Materials.
Brass PlaQus

AT CIT PRICES Easels. Artists Sketchng
Materials and Brushes, in full supply.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1887-09-21
Water Wheels.

"Thc day of the water wheel is over, "
said a largo manufacturer. 81 don't
know of any business that has suffered
so much as ours from now inventions.
The many excellent portable and gas
engines that have beea put on the:
market within the last few years have
almost entirely superseded the cumber-
some water wheel. There will un-
douhtedly always be a certain demand
for wheels where they have been already
in operation and where the water supply
is good, but new factories lind it cheaper
to- run by steam than to busld mill dams.
The new order of things no longer leaves
the manufacturer ut tho mercy of the
elements. Fortunes have boon lost on
forfeited contracts by mills having to
close down in the busy season on account
of long-continued drought. The water
wheel trade is now largely confined to
foreign markets and new countries,
they disappear as population increases
and gas is introduced. ."-Nsw York SxR.
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Cause of Dirty Finger Nails.

People who are nice to q scriptural
point about the care of their bodies,
wonder sometimes despairingly how it is
that their finger nails get so dirty. They
may not have been out of dooIs or en-
gagged in any manual occupation, and
yet few hours after thorough cleans
ing of their nails they may have black
streak under the points and the hand
brush must be used again. They will be
surprised to learn that their hair is the
cause of this offensive collection of dirt.
There are u few persons who do not often
put their fingers to their hair to replace
stray lock, if a woman, cr if man to
throw it back from his forehead or run
b s fingers through it. Each time that
the hand touches the hair some of the oil
adheres to the fingers and the nails, and
this attracts and holds the dirt and dust
whose particles float in the purest atmos-
phcre. Anybody can prove this state
ment by watching the finger nails for q
day after the hair has been shampooed
and noting how much longer they re-
main clean than they will two days after
the barber has rubbed all of the oil out
of the scalp -Glebe- Democrat.
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Origin Of the East India Company.

The East India Company, according to
u document just published, was origi-
mated by Dutch ''corner" in pepper.
Certain private merchants in Amsterdam,
who had begun to trade in the Eastern
seas in 1896, had by 1899 fairly estab-
lished themselves, and in that year raised
the price of pepper against us from three
shilLings per pound to six shillings and
eight shillings. The London merchants
would not stand this, and at a meeting
on September % at Founders Hall, un-
der the Lord Mayor, they agreed to form
an association for the purpose of trading
direct with India. Queen Elizabeth.also
sent Sir John Mildenhall, by Constanti-
nople. to the Great Mogul, to apply for
privileges for the English company, for
which she was then preparing charter
and on December 81, 1000, the first Eng
gIish East India Company was incorpo-
rated by royal charter under the title of
s'The Governor and Company of Mcr-
chants of London Trading to the East
Indies. -Lire,pod Courier.
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Suffer and Be Strong.

Awriter says that the. mem Of today
lack the patient, brave endurance Of SUI
ferinc that made our fathers noble.
Lack nothing" retorts' Burdette' In the
Brooklyn Eagle; ''our sufferings> are; cast
in different mold. To each. his. suffer-
inos; all are men condemned alike, TO-
groan. Our fathers never paid a dollar
extra for o seat in a.parlor car. in order
to secure increased and exclusive comfort
and then carried three cornsred cindef
in one eye for seventy miles. They never
brought cheap rate excursion ticket
and then got ground up in a halfway
smash-no rebate; never a. father PAID -
a day for the privilege of being: burned
up in hotel; when they went eo' mar
tvrlom they didn't have. to pay sheir OWN
funeral expens Is and furaish the, matchesS
they weren't blown up, by natural gas;
they didn't live in town whese't the rsln
sewer emptiea into the water works dam
they didn't pay for Sugarard get SAND;
when they asked their fathes for bread be
didn't give them alum and plaster OF
paris; thcy didn't eat artificial eggs ana
chemical butter and chrome yellow buns
we doa't endure sutfering2 There are
men Of to-day who don't do anything all
day but just stand around and suffer.
This is the sulferage; especially toi
wO,uApn y
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Signs Of Wind.

Father Dominick Navarette in the
seventeenth century discovered certain
infallible signs of wind. One never
failing token twas the running and tlut-
tering about of little insects aboard the
ship, and the more restless they are the
higher tie wind, and by observing what
place they came from mariners shall
know if it will be fair" Another sign,
according to his reverence, is when pigs
begin to run and tumble about ship
in a calm. Baumgarten, in his "Trav-
els," says he was with pilot who, by
putting his finger in his mouth and
then holding it up, ''prognosticated to
us that we should have wind very speed
lily, which, indeed proved accordingly"
All that the modern sailor can do by
wetting his finger and lifting it is to
feel if there be any movement in the
air. The digit has long ceased to be a
sybil. Formerly the Brittany fishermen
raised the wind at will by procuring the
dust swept out of certain church and
blowing it in the direction from which
they desired the breeze to come. Sar-
dinian sailors also possessed the same
useful art. To procure q fair wind they
had nothing to do but to sweet chapel
after mass and blow the dust of it after
departing ships.-London Telegraph.
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Bald-Headelness.

There is much wearisome and needless
discussion about bald"headcd American
men. Wash your head thoroughly once
week with lather of soap and water,
rinse all the soap out, and rub the scalp
lively till it is entirely dry. Never wear
an unventilatcd hat or any hat at all
whcr you can avoid it. Wear straw hat,
instead of felt, whenever possible. Give
your scalp plenty of sunlight, also plenty
of air. Don't smoke too mnch. Follow
these directions, and you never will be
bald-headed. Even if your hair has be-
gun to get thin, it will revive. Canadians
are bald because they wear fur caps. 1t
is the wearing of hot ard unnatural head.
coverings that makes the hair iall out. II
quite bald man should go bareheaded
in the sun and air q year, it is likely that
his hair would come in again, and he
would never take cold. Remember this :
Nature meant your hair to keep your head
warm, not for caps or felt hats. Felt
hats and silk hats are an abomination.
These are the wretches that make Amcri-
can men bald headed. 1t is not their
mighty intellects or their excessively fine
nervous systems. If you render the hair
superhuous by making hats do its duty for
it. nature takrs it away she will not tol,
crate sens LESS things, Caltirator
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PICTURESQUE japanese Customs.

The sword is held in special veneration
by the japanese of all classes. 1t sym
bolizes the divine authority of the
Mikado, the loyalty and martial pride Of
the warrior; and japanese writers speak
of it in glowing terms as the "previous
possession of lord and vassal from times
older than the divine PERIOD" or as "the
living soul of the samurai." Many
treatiscs have been written on this theme,
the art of determining the maker and
date of sword blade being one of great
research and labor. Those made before
1903, A. D., are called old swords; those
made since, new swords; and the former
was long, straight, double-edged weap-
on called the ken, the latter katana.
single-edged and slightly curved toward
the point. A short sword or dirk, called
the wakizashi, was worn with the katana
as sign of gentle birth or military in
heritance. Members of the fourth or
fifth rank in the Empire wore a short
dirk without guard, which doctors and
artists were also required to carry, and
stilettos foot long were part of an
officers and noblcman's dress. Others
could be mentioned, but these will suffice
to show their important character among
people who inscribe such sentiments as
the following upon their blades: Gin
ones last days, ones sword becomes the
wealth of ones posterity;" and, Zones
fate is in the hands of Heaven, but a
skillrul fighter does not meet with death. 1"
Tca-drinking and dancing are init
mately associated in Japan, and both are
carried to high degree of artistic per-
fcction. The tea-houses are to Yoko-
hama what the Boulevard cafes are to
Paris. The mattresses are graceful girls,
who move about with noiseless tread,
serving fragrant tea in dainty cups, with
slices of sweet cake; and entertainment
is furnished by fair dancers in silken
robes, who move sinuously to the bizarre
strains Of the koto, the kogu, and the
samisen. These native Ounces are a
species of acted charades, each having a
central motive or idea to illustrate. This
gives rise to an infinite variety of pleasing
motions and tableaux. There are parasol-
dances, fan-dances, flower -charades, IL
lustrations of the seasons, and many
more.-Frank Leslie's.
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HOur.Glasses.

Long before hour-glasses, or sand
glasses, were used in churches to indi-
cate the time occupied in the delivery of
sermons, they were used in tournaments
to limit the duration of combats and pre-
vent them from being really sanguinary
encounters. Of two adversaries engaged
in "a gentle passage of arms" he was
accounted victor who obtained the
greater number of advantages before the
sand had run out from the glass turned
at the commencement of the combat.
Sand glasses were employed, also, in
scholastic discussions. Pascal, for in.
stance, in one of his letters, mentions q
discussion in which he took part in the
Sorbonne, when he spoke for half an
hour by the sand-glass or sable.
And there were, eventually, so identi-
fed with scholarship, as we'll as preach
ing, that artists frequently placed an
hour glass as we'll as book in the back
ground of their portraits of eminent
scholars. They were also made use Of at
sales. But though thus used in the fif-
teenth and sixteenth centuries, it was in the
pulpit in the seventeenth century that
they obtained their wider popularity land
on tombstones of the same period that
they were most frequently delineated.
The high pew, or ''pue," as it used to be
written, the long sermon and the hour
glass of the pulpit, are as vivid a pre-
sentiment of Queen Anne's time, too, as
would be the snulf-box, the clouded
cane, or the fans and brocades of the
fashionable folks who took the air in the
Mall. -Quirer.
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A Mexican SWeat Bath,

"The first time 1 tried Mexican sweat
bath" said Col. Joe Shelly, the famous
scout, 81 thought l would die, but l shut
my teeth together and SAID Il can stand
it as long as you can, old fellows 1t was
at the close of long march on a hot day.
The Indians fixed tcpee until it was arr
tight, heated rock, and then rolled it
into the tepce. One by one we crawled
into it, after having stripped off our
clothing. Some ofthe Indians didn't have
much on, and then we packed together
as close as sardines in box. I thought
I would melt. Every few minutes the
lord high executioner, or master of eere-
monies, would talk Indian and throw a
little water out Of can on the rock.
This would fill the room with steam. 1t
seemed an age before they let me 60, but
l guess it wasn't more than half an hour
Then we all made a rush to the river near
BY, and dash of few minutes made lis
as fresh as a daisy No matter how tired
we were, the sweat bath made us feel like
kings. n-T0leQ0 B!aae
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FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

Long Island is in the shape of fish.
! 1t is 115 miles long and twelve miles
wide.
Air balloons were invented by Gusmac,
Jesuit, in 1929, and revived by Mont
golfer, in France, in 1888.
Fifty railroad tics, each eight feet in
length and 16x16 inches thick, were cut
from one pine tree of Dooly county,
Georgia.
Pine City, Washington Territory,
claims to have the smallest living woman.
She is twcnty-seven years old, twenty
nine inches tall and weighs thirty-three
;; pounds.
Mrs. Iva Richmond, of Golden, Mich,
was thrown into the machinery of a
reaper that she was driving, but her life
was saved by her faithful dog. who
rushed forward and stopped the team.
A North Branch, Mich, hotel dog
takes a bell in his mouth each morning
and rings at every door along the hall,
and, failing to get a response, bangs the
bell against the door until he does get It,.
There IS a watch in a Swiss museum
only three -sixtcenths of an inch in diam
cter, inserted in the top of pencil case.
Its little dial indicates not only hours,
minutes and seconds, but also days OF
the month.
An apple tree on the premises OF
Joseph F. Plummer, in Upper Swamp
scott, Mass, has rose engrafted on it
that blossomcd beautifully this season.
1t was pure white, and has the fragrance
of the apple.
The corner stone of the old Capitol
was lad by General Washington, on the
18th day of December, 1893. This build
ing was set on fire by the British in the
war of 1914, at the conclusion of which
it was rebuilt. The wings were added in
1851, on July 4, the anniversary of the
Declaration of Independence.
At Russell, in the year 1549, cats
formed rt of an orchestra which per-
formed before Philip II. of Spain.
A bear was seated on a great car
at the figure of an organ, which, instead
of pipes, had twenty cats of different
notes and sizes shut up in small cages
with their tails out, and attached to the
register of the organ in such q manner
that when the bear pressed the keys the
tails of the unlucky cats were pulled,
and the cats began to squeal.
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WORDS OF WISDOM.

We are martyrs to our own faults. ~
To live fast means too often to die
fast.
Misdirected labor is waste Of ac-
tivity.
Nearly all great men have had remark
able memories.
Do the truth you know, and you shall
learn the truth you need to know.
Feebleness of means is, in fact, the
feebleness of him that employs them.
Call not that man wretchcd who, what
ever ills he suffers, has child to love.
Extraordinary Affections are not always
the punishment of extraordinary graces.
We talk of creative minds. That is but
a figure of speech-we can create Moth
ing. 4
False men are not to be taken into con-
fidence, nor fearful men into post that
requires resolution.
To be free-mindcd and cheerfully dis
posed at hours of meal, sleep and exer-
else, is one of the best precepts of long
lasting.
Let us live like those who expect to.
die, and then we shall find that we feared
death only because We are unacquainted
with it.
Inquisitive people are the tunnels of
conversation: they do not take in any
thing for their own use, but merely pass
it to another.
Contentment is pearl of great price,
and whosoever procures it at the expense
Of ten thousand desires makes wise and
a happy purchase <r
In free countries there is often found
more realpublic wisdom and sagacity in
shops and manufactures than in the
cabinets of princes in countries where
none dare 10 have an opinion until they
come into them. 80
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Kindling Wood For City Stores.

At the corner of Eighteenth street and
Avenue B is located one of the largest
kindling wood factories in the world.
The factory can turn out seventy cords of
wood per day, sawed, split, and ready
for the burning. Oak, pine and hem
lock are fed to singing buzz-saws and
Unsuitable chopping knives. The hickory
is brought from the northern part of
this State, and from Connecticut and
Pennsylvania. 1t is mostly burned in
| open fires, and is cut in pieces from eight
to forty-cight inches in length. Hickory
is worth $lS per cord piled in the cellar
Five vessels, with q combined capacity
of 1875 tons, are constantly employed
bringing pine from Virginia to the fac
tory. These vessels make twenty trips
each during the year.
The oak is grown in this State and c on
nccticut, and the hemlock comes from
the lumber districts of New York State.
Hemlock is brought to this city in strips
about four feet long and one and one
half inches square. These strips are put
into machine run by steam. which, at
one revolution of sixteen saws, cuts them
into pieces three inches in length. These
pieces are then dumped into big wooden
hopper around the edges of which are
ranged benches. Into these benches are
set oval iron machines operated by steam
by means of treadle.
Men are paid at the rate of 25 cents
hundred bundles for forming the wood
into bundles and tying it with tarred
rope. The machine presses the pieces of
wood so closely together that the rope
often cuts into the wood. Six hundred
bundles a day is considered fair days
work for man, although an exception
ally quick workman has been known to
put 500 bundles together.
The wood in the bundles sold in the
grocery stores containing pieces nine
inches in length is cut with buzz saw
and fed into machine which carries the
sawed pieces under knife like the letter
X. This knife cuts as much wood in
fifteen minutes as darkey could chop in
day.
From May till October very little bust
ness is done at the factory. The sale of
oak wood has fallen off greatly during
the past few years. Cut oak wood is
worth $14. 50 a cord. Pine brings the
same price. There are about 1913 cubic
feet of wood in an ordinary stick of pine
timber.-New York Sun.